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11 Donate Now Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. These best practices serve as a foundation for your online fundraising campaigns, but much of your nonprofit’s success also depends upon the service you choose to process your online donations and the design and frequency of your e-newsletter.

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See, Say, Feel, Do: Metrics for Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

I am a big fan of actionable metrics. In all of my presentations and webinars about social media tracking, measurement, and engagement, I highlight the value of and need for what I call “actionable metrics”, meaning the data we capture and track that actually gives us insight and the opportunity to improve or change the way we use various platforms and the kinds of content we create and share.

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The #1 Reason You Need a Recurring Giving Program and 3 Expert Examples

NetWits

The #1 Reason to Start a Recurring Giving Program. What’s the #1 Reason you need a recurring giving program, you ask? Let’s take a look. The lifetime value of an online acquired donor is roughly $128 dollars to your organization. Online fundraising research suggests that if you move an online acquired donor to on offline channel (i.e. direct mail) you’ll increase the lifetime value of that donor from $128 dollars to $197 dollars – An increase that any nonprofit organization would love to see.

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Hosting Harkin at the Hub

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Gather a group of social entrepreneurs to brainstorm ideas to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and you will harvest an array of innovative solutions. Share these ideas during a vibrant conversation with the number one champion in the Senate for people with disabilities, and you can count on a disability rights advocate who is prepared to mobilize support and resources to promote policies that will create an employment environment in which these cool innovations rema

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

UPDATED 2/26/12: Please note that the best practices listed below are a work in progress and are updated regularly. To be alerted of when new best practices are posted, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter. Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book.

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Online Community Organizing: Start small, think big!

Amy Sample Ward

NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more.

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Have a Coke and a Smile…or Why Content Matters

NCE Social Media

Coca-Cola is the most consumed beverage after water. People collect Coke memorabilia. It’s an iconic brand and the company takes it seriously. So what does a company with such global implications focus on to engage their customers via social media? Content. Here’s a video explaining Coca-Cola’s social media strategy for content. Does this mirror things you’re doing already or want to do in the future?

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Facebook Brand Pages: How To Be Ready

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Mari Smith. Two weeks ago, social media blogs were buzzing with the news that Facebook would unveil the long anticipated new format for Facebook brand pages that would include the timeline and cover image. Mari Smith, in this informative post , gave us a sneak peek at what it might look like for a big brand like Coke. According to Mari, there have been rumors that the new format will be shared at the Facebook Marketing Conference on February 29th in NYC.

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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

My latest post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog is now up. You can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the copy below. —– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Nearly 18,000 people participated in the 24-hour, online fundraising event, raising more than $2 million to benefit 1,200 local nonprofits.

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Lame spam of the day: meeting reminder

Robert Weiner

This one's lame, but probably easy for a busy person at a large company to fall for. I do like the "put on something normal" line. Sender: HullJAIME@aol.com. Subject: DONT FORGET! Text: The meeting with new clients is due today in 17:27. Be in time and put on something normal! Here is the map for you to follow: map.jpg 226kb (map link leads to [link] ).

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Free Non-profit Webinars for March 2012

Wild Apricot

Here's our monthly round-up of free non-profit webinars for March, 2012. Check out the 27+ webinars we found this month.

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Tips and Cheat Sheets To Help Your Nonprofit Plan and Implement FB Brand Page Changes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook made it official today on the Today Show no less. The long anticipated changes to Facebook brand pages – switching to the timeline format – is now available to all brand pages. But Facebook hasn’t played god with us and flipped the switch – they’re actually giving us a month to absorb the change - and create a plan, design, and test it.

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Giving Back through the Nonprofit Technology Conference's 13th Annual Day of Service

NTEN

11NTC Day of Service Volunteers Now in its thirteenth year, the Day of Service provide an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give something back to the local community where the Nonprofit Technology Conference is held. If you haven't heard, the 2012 NTC will be held in April 3-5 in San Francisco. This year, we’re stepping up the Day of Service to include multiple days to help Bay Area nonprofits.

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Research Friday: How Important is Gift Acknowledgement to Donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Sharon Brooks , Development Associate. United Cerebral Palsy. of Central Arizona. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight current nonprofit research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day practice. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Nonprofit Marketing Wisdom Guide

Wild Apricot

Here's a look at the Nonprofit Marketing Wisdom Guide for 2012 - from Nancy Schwartz. It offers tips and advice from more than 200 non-profit colleagues.

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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure to participate in the SF Foundation Center’s 35th Anniversary Open House where I had an opportunity to lead a mini-workshop on best practices in social fundraising for almost a 100

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Mobile Fundraising Options for Nonprofits

NTEN

Luke Lightfoot. Marketing and Client Services. UR Mobile. What are the pros and cons for the various mobile options available to nonprofits? The mobile demands being placed on organizations by consumers are not limited to the for-profit sector; they are also being placed on nonprofit organizations. Realizing this, nonprofits are focusing on mobile, especially mobile fundraising and donation strategies.

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Blogging with our brains and hearts

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

My much-loved client, Community TechKnowledge , recently asked me to serve as the curator of their new guest blog. We launched it today, and I'd like to invite you to take a look. Since 2005, I've been murmuring that the future of blogging is not with individual blogs like mine, but with well-designed web sites that feature clusters of blogs by diverse authors who are focused on a coherent mission.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Using Wild Apricot Functionality in Another Website

Wild Apricot

To many, Wild Apricot is a great all-in-one solution for website hosting as well as managing members, events, invoices, newsletters, donations, and contacts. But what you might not know is that you can integrate these features (i.e. membership registration, event calendars, profiles,etc) into your existing website using Widgets! Check out these client examples, incorporating Wild Apricot into custom designs, Wordpress templates, and more.

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Bridging Social Technologies and Sustainable Development: Social Squared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: E arlier this month, the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, hosted the USRIO 2.0 Preparation Conference where policy-makers, practitioners, and innovators discussed how to use connection technologies to advance sustainable development in advance of the June USRIO2.o conference. Unfortunately, with final book manuscript looming, I could not participate.

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Latest Issue of NTEN:Change is Live: Myth-Busting, Everyday Innovation, Case-Studies, Confessions, and More

NTEN

Has it been a year already since we launched NTEN's quarterly digital journal for nonprofit leaders? Indeed it has, and the latest issue could be our best ever. I'm pleased to announce Issue Five of NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders ! NTEN's publication (which was recently honored with a Publishing Trendsetter Award ) is free and hot off the press.

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Blog Tips to Boost Your Web Traffic

Care2

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. How do you make your blog stand out? What are the best blogging practices your organization should implement that will also generate more blog traffic? Frogloop's got you covered. Check out some of our favorite blogging tips below.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Take Care and Remind Yourself Why

Wild Apricot

February's Nonprofit Blog Carnival offers some great food for thought about taking care of yourself and your team.

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Webinar Recap: Processing Payments for Good

Tech Soup

On February 23, I had the pleasure of facilitating our webinar focusing on credit card processing, Processing Payments for Good. You can view the recorded webinar , along with related slides and links. Merchant Services and Credit Card Processing. During this webinar, we heard from Alexia Marcous at Dharma Merchant Services. Along with talking about Dharma's history of working with nonprofits, she also provided an excellent overview of merchant services in general.

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Being Data Driven to Advance Your Mission (A Free Webinar Series from NTEN)

NTEN

After people, data is your organization's most important asset. Data can and should be used to help your organization make smarter decisions about the work you do now and to shape the way you work in the future. As more data becomes available to us and the tools to understand it all become more user-friendly, nonprofits have an opportunity - even a duty - to use data to gain a more robust understanding of our work, the communities in which we work, and the impact we're making.

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Lessons Learned From Social Fundraising Contests

Care2

A new report is out today that explores the impact of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington , which was held for the first time in November. There are some great takeaways for nonprofits thinking abut social fundraising and communities considering organizing giving day events of their own. How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities , authored by Geoff Livingston, was commissioned by the Case Foundation and presented in conjunction with Razoo.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Wild Apricot Software News February 2012

Wild Apricot

Our Chief Apricot needs your help! There are some complex questions facing our product design team, and we'd really love some input from you, our clients! Check out our other software updates, including many screenshot highlights from the forthcoming Version 4.4, and new web designer help content.

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Ask Your Nonprofit Blogging Questions. I'll Answer Them!

Have Fun - Do Good

How would you like to have your nonprofit blogging questions answered - for free! In March, I will be a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, Social Good , The Chronicle of Philanthropy's monthly show about social media hosted by Allison Fine. We'd love to answer your blogging questions on the podcast. Post your questions and requests for advice on the Chronicle of Philanthropy's blog post, Give Your Blog a Makeover.

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We Need Your Help! Support the 2012 NTC Scholarship Fund

NTEN

Every year, the NTEN community comes together to raise enough money to send staff from small nonprofits to the NTC. We firmly believe it's the diversity of our community that makes us strong. For the fourth year running, Convio will match your contribution, dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000 – but only until February 29th. We've raised nearly $5,000 so far.

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Example Of Good Guiding Business Principles

Eric Jacobsen Blog

I really like these 10 guiding business principles that San Antonio, TX headquartered insurance company USAA lives by: Exceed customer expectations Live the Golden Rule (treat others with courtesy and respect) Be a leader Participate and contribute Pursue excellence Work as a team Share knowledge Keep it simple (make it easy for customers to do business with us and for us to work together) Listen and communicate Have fun Too many companies don't make it simple for their customers to do business

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.